I am stressing like never before about this topic. I’m dual enrolled and going into my senior year. I have the choice of fully/early admitting to the college, but I’m not sure if I should. Here are the pros and cons of both:
DO fully/early admit
pros: more freedom, could get a job (?), participate in more clubs…basically more time for extracurricular things
cons: no AP classes
DON’T fully/early admit
pros: AP classes, see high school friends more
cons: a lot less free time (night classes), less club participation, and overall more pressure/stress
Here are the problems:
- I need to do my extracurricular activities because I don’t do sports or music (terrible, I know)
- I want my senior schedule to seem rigorous, but I don’t know what colleges will think if I only take dual enrollment classes
- I really wanted to take AP Bio, Stat, and Calc
- sometimes AP > dual enrollment
- I’m not too worried about the friend thing, but it would be nice to be able to have somewhat of a “high school experience”
Any advice on what to do?